Evidence-Based Medicine related resources

Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Reproductive Health
This is a four-day training course on evidence-based decision-making in reproductive health. It aims to enable health-care workers and policy-makers to identify and use evidence-based practices for sexual and reproductive health care in under-resourced settings.

The James Lind Library
This is a web collection of essays and several other relevant material about the history of treatment tests, including key passages and images from manuscripts, books and journal articles. It aims to help people understand the assessment of treatment effectiveness in health care.
Discovering the need for randomized controlled trials in obstetrics: a personal odyssey
Personal reflections by Professor David Grimes on his obstetrics and gynaecology career published in The James Lind Library.
Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Health Care
Aimed at both patients and professionals, Testing Treatments builds a lively and thought provoking argument for better, more reliable, more relevant research, with unbiased or ‘fair’ trials, and explains how patients can work with doctors to achieve this vital goal. The whole book can be downloaded from the James Lind Library without cost in original English and Arabic, Chinese and Spanish.

StratOG.net
This is an e-learning tool developed by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). It consists of e-tutorials covering a broad learning programme in obstetrics and gynaecology. Through RHL, health care workers from developing countries have free-of-charge access to the StratOG.net e-tutorial on 'Assessing evidence'.
To use this learning tool, please request a username by sending your full details to: rhl_stratognet@who.int

Publication bias in clinical trials due to statistical significance or direction of trial results: RHL commentary
This Cochrane review found that trials reporting positive findings are more likely to be published, and to be published faster, than those reporting negative findings.

Articles on Research synthesis
RHL articles on research synthesis This is a collection of articles on methodological aspects of systematic reviews and trials. It also discusses the role of evidence-based care as a strategy for improving reproductive health in developing countries.

Lancet series on treating individuals
Five Lancet articles discussing the applicability of trials results for individuals. These articles cover the determinants of external validity, subgroup analysis and treatment based on individual risk, including targeting interventions at individuals most likely to benefit.

Lancet Epidemiological series
Five Lancet articles introducing clinicians to key methodological aspects of randomized controlled trials, including random sequence generation, concealment of allocation, blinding and sampling.

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